After fifty drabbles, I've come to the conclusion that...I do not own FF7.
Drabble fifty: In which Lily watches Tayuya leave.

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Cloud had been crying again that night, she comforted him real quick and slid into her bed. But she noticed one thing immediately and frowned.

Lily got up to see Tayuya cooing over the baby and Lily stiffened her face.

"So are you leaving?" Tayuya jumped up a bit and looked over at Lily, tears forming just at the peaks.

"...Yeah..."

"Why?" Lily coughed out, her body started to shake. Tayuya turned to her and gave a very small smile then went back to his child, patting the baby's barely grown hair.

Cloud liked that and grabbed his father's large hand, cooing just as his father had been cooing at him. Lily coughed again, holding back the tears and the screaming she wanted to do was too much.

Lily and Tayuya shared a laugh as Cloud started sucking on his father's fingers. Lily continued to laugh, brushing at her face to hide the tears away.

Then Tayuya had encompassed her in a hug, Lily stood still as Tayuya brushed her long hair quietly, whispering sweet nothings into her ear.

"Your country really is important for you, isn't it?" Lily asked, her green eyes brimming with tears as she looked up to the man she fell in the love and still was so deeply in love with.

"Yes...I made sure I could leave a nice place here for you, both not to far from the place we both grew up. Cloud will grow up good hear, and don't worry, I'll be able to come back."

Lily grabbed him and on his armor, such light armor, such light packing...was he really going to come back? Lily knew that Tayuya had a fine license in the art of swordsmenship, so why was he lacking his sword? Why was he lacking so many weapons.

"You won't. You won't...you'll die in that stupid war! Tayuya, please don't! I don't know if I can take care of Cloud by myself! I don't know if I have the strength to go on without you!" Lily begged and pleaded, crying harder then she ever cried before. Lily had flashbacks to the loneliness she felt her entire life.

"Lily, I won't die. I'll come back...please, believe in me." Lily bawled out, crying very much like her baby had started to cry, latching herself against her husband and Tayuya just hugged her back.

He left just like that, after comforting his wife and putting her into bed, he went to see baby Cloud one last time. Tayuya smiled at the boy, he was hiccuping.

Tayuya picked up the blonde haired boy and soothed the baby just as he did to his wife. Cloud sniffed, probably catching a cold.

"Cloud my boy...I don't know how women sense these things. She's right...I'll die..." Tayuya laughed slightly, his own form of denial as he held his child softly, "Cloud...you need to take care of your mom. You're going to be the only big strong man in the house." The baby squealed in his arms and he placed him back in the little rocker.

"Dada...dada..." Tayuya stiffened a sniff and he rubbed his eyes, proclaiming that there was something in his eye.

"I love you and your mom Cloud, try to never forget that. Try and have a good life..." Tayuya gave him a kiss on the forehead and as he was out the door, he looked back to the sleeping blondes.

And gave one last smile to the both of them.

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Drabble 50, end! Wow, I actually cried once. I feel so sorry for Lily right now. Well fifty drabbles people! Congrats, we're half done with the drabble ficlets for this fic. And our states? Practically almost 200 reviews, over 10k views, 1 C2, 25 favorites and 14 alert lists. Thanks so much people! Really, it means a lot to me! Anyway thanks to scarlettHuntress (Well you're not as bad a certain reviewer. And it's true that we would kill all those who were mean to Cloud...except Sephiroth...), Tolea (Oh Gods...umm...let me see, German, Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian (sp? I dunno), very little American Indian blood, and there's some other culture out there, but I'm not sure of them all), and Zenithar (Thank you very much.).